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Super Productive Week – day 1

simon — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Super Productive Project Week is on! So I’ve got the house to myself while GFW and Co. are out visiting grandma in Merkel. Which means it’s a rare opportunity to listen to loud music till the odd hours of the night and work on All those things that I’ve been meaning to get done. But, first things [...]

Quick update 50% marker passed!

simon — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:48:19 +0000

Just tooting my own horn. I just passed the 50% mark on the art asset creation for the sheep decks. Just 62 more cards to finalize.. Here’s where things stand as of now: Cards Drawn 78 remaining 47 total cards: 125 Cards Painted 63 remaining 62 ready to paint 15 Cards Placed indo Deck Files 63 remaining 62 ready to place 0 Cards Tested in Gameplay 1 remaining 124 -<this isn’t exactly accurate but I know what it means>- Known Text [...]

Long time no bloggy.

simon — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:11:26 +0000

Ok, been a bit hectic and I’ve been a bad blogger. I feel I can blame it on the impending arrival of offspring and get on with it. Couple paintings are done and there’s now a nice angel and demon in 24×24″ panels in the front hall. You know.. to scare people away from the [...]

Slow progress, but good things none the less

simon — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Wow time sure does fly, and whoa am I so totally not going to make the Oct 31 deadline! Which more or less means that November and December are going to be choked with Holidays and Family. And it turns out there’s a little baby boy inbound, eta Feb 25(ish) (holy crap!) So that has got to [...]

Clockworld, It’s Done!

simon — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:00:00 +0000

So it only took a little under 7 months, this weekend I finally wrapped up the behemoth that’s been hanging in the kitchen since January. The biggest change was wiping out the sun, which I spent so much time into getting perfect the first time around. However it just wasn’t working. Once [...]

Springtime doldrums and overthought thinkings

simon — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:01:12 +0000

So, I’ve been running around in the total overwhelmed mode for a while and it’s time to steer the frantic caffinated ADD besotted herd of cats that is my attention span back onto track. Some basic concept art got created, and then I wandered off the project to illustrationland and then got mired down in EPIC [...]

TED – my favorites

simon — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:30:22 +0000

Been spending a good bit of time on TED.com listening to the talks, there’s just so many facinating talks on so many cool topics, that I just had to jot down some of my favorites. David Gallo: Underwater astonishments – incredible underwater critters http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_gallo_shows_underwater_astonishments.html Barry Schwartz on virtue & wisdom http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_our_loss_of_wisdom.html Seth Godin: Sliced bread and other marketing delights [...]

Painting update – day 8ish

simon — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:32:00 +0000

So after a nice little hiatus with the game programmy project its back to work on the behemoth that’s been hogging up the kirchen for going on a month now. I really didn’t want to do this, which is why it probably took so long. You see, I didn’t finish the background first… and you always [...]

A good weekend’s worth of progress.

simon — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:33:27 +0000

Made a pretty hefty chunk of progress over the weekend and last two nights. Some behind the scenes work with putting everything in the level controlled by a manager object that keeps track of what’s going on and what to spawn next. Off the top of my head: WSAD controls work. Money powerup (yellow dots) Magic powerup (blue Sigils) monsters drop [...]

Short sharp turn in freetime utilization

simon — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:20:49 +0000

Talking a couple days away from the biggo painting.. Kinda mentally stuck on what to do with the blues.. So I’m diving head first into another side project. Which I spent the all of yesterday working on and plan on spending the evening on (after working out) to hopefully have a workable single level. It’s all so [...]